To Know God
Intimacy with God has been the greatest cry of my heart for quite a while now. I thirst for it. I beg for it. I cannot settle for life without it. And nothing drives me more crazy than when it looks like God isn't close. Nothing makes me more angry with Him than my unfulfilled passion to be intimate with Him. He seems so elusive sometimes. Like i'm chasing after the wind.
But today i stubbed my toe on something concrete. I stumbled onto Jeremiah 22:16.
God is talking about Josiah and He says, "He gave justice and help to the poor and needy, and everything went well for him. Isn't that what it means to know me?"
To take care of the poor and needy is to know God.
The Hebrew word for "know" here is a form of the verb yada, which implies intimate knowledge. It's the same word word used in the Old Testament for "knowing" someone sexually.
I believe this trip to Uganda is going to give me the opportunity to get up close and personal with God in ways i never imagined before. Matthew 25 doesn't say that caring for the needy is like caring for Jesus. It says they're litterally the same thing. That's incredible to me. I don't know what i'm more excited about: being Jesus to these kids or meeting Jesus in them.
But today i stubbed my toe on something concrete. I stumbled onto Jeremiah 22:16.
God is talking about Josiah and He says, "He gave justice and help to the poor and needy, and everything went well for him. Isn't that what it means to know me?"
To take care of the poor and needy is to know God.
The Hebrew word for "know" here is a form of the verb yada, which implies intimate knowledge. It's the same word word used in the Old Testament for "knowing" someone sexually.
I believe this trip to Uganda is going to give me the opportunity to get up close and personal with God in ways i never imagined before. Matthew 25 doesn't say that caring for the needy is like caring for Jesus. It says they're litterally the same thing. That's incredible to me. I don't know what i'm more excited about: being Jesus to these kids or meeting Jesus in them.